Five Hours of Training

Digital Painting Tutorial with Paris Christou

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Paris Christou, professional instructor and YouTuber-extraordinaire, teaches this lengthy course on how to draw Cherry in elaborate detail. Paris is a full time animator, pin-up artist, children’s story book illustrator, and has his own comic series for a nationally distributed newspaper in the UK.

Digital Painting Tutorials!

Join YouTube cartoonist, animator and teacher Paris Christou in this fun and enlightening course on digital painting cartoons. Paris will be teaching using a go-to model of his own creation: Cherry, and you’re welcome to following along using his sketch or ANY of your own cartoons!

Level 1 – 2 Hours

In this 2 hour session, Paris supplies you with his beautiful hand-drawn sketch to follow along throughout this video series. Watch over his shoulder as Paris demonstrates and explains his Five Easy Steps to inking and coloring cartoon characters so that you can feel confident to create eye-catching images.

In this series of six easy-to-follow video tutorials, you will learn:

How to clean the sketch to create your line-art using Paris’s trademark feathering technique

How to add the flat colors to your characters

How to color your line-art correctly

How to block out distinctive shadows

How to add rim light and shines for appeal

Level 2 – Over 3 Hours

Watch over the shoulder as Paris Christou demonstrates and explains in pure detail all his tricks and techniques on how to ink and render his cartoon character “Cherry” into this gorgeous summer pinup. Paris focuses on painting the form of the character to give that semi-realistic touch whilst still keeping the 2D cartoon feel to the artwork. Inside this course you will learn:

How to clean the sketch to create your line-art using Paris’s trademark feathering technique

How to add the flat colors to your characters

How to color and blend your line-art

How Paris uses his Layers for each element

How to use the airbrush

How to choose Warm and Cool Colors

How to Blend tones together

How to add Light and Shadows to create a 3D effect

Plus a few tricks up Paris’s sleeve

Watch a short preview of the course…

Digital Painting with Paris Christou

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